Teaching Uprightness and True Manliness

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 21, 1886

Teaching Uprightness and True Manliness

SOCRATES declared that, in his day, if a man was desirous of having his son or his servant taught the carpenter's trade, or any other trade, he could easily find a man competent to teach it; but if he wished his son or his servant to be taught uprightness (to dikaion), he knew not where to look for a teacher. In our days, it is easy to find colleges that will teach Greek, or geometry, or biology. But if a man desires a school where his boy may be taught gentleness, courteousness, chastity, truthfulness, true manliness, can he find it? Or is there not demand enough for these things to produce a supply?—Sel.